Hard times on the tundra

The Inuit of Canada's sub-Artic Hudson Bay are tough people. Throw tragedy after tragedy at them and they endure, if not with a sunny disposition, at least with the feeling that life is a thing to be survived, a constant battle with nature for your very existence. At least that's the way it seems to be for Victoria, the protagonist of Kevin Patterson's poignant debut novel (after a memoir and...